Moving and Storage Business News

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- … Lead-Generation Service for Moving Companies; New Company…
- Public Storage Inc. Announces Distributions for the First Quarter of…
- HP to launch photo kiosks in retailers – Feb. 23 2006

… Lead-Generation Service for Moving Companies; New Company…
Business Wire – Business Wire (press release) – Feb 23, 2006
com) today unveiled the online lead-generation service designed to connect pre-screened moving companies with private and commercial customers who need them. GigaMoves brings qualified referrals to moving companies and allows them to conveniently manage their referral-development accounts and costs online. The company was launched by Rent. com an eBay company and America’s largest and most visited apartment-finding Internet Listing Site (ILS). Leveraging both Rent. com’s and eBay’s expertise in bringing buyers and sellers of goods and services together GigaMoves offers moving services quality online lead generation… Headquartered in Santa Monica Calif. GigaMoves provides online account management of customized campaigns; money savings with pay-per-lead pricing; real-time deliverability and tracking of verified leads; nationwide coverage and a guarantee to work with only licensed moving companies not brokers. Nearly 100 major moving and storage firms across the country are already using GigaMoves’ automated referral service including Paul Arpin Van Lines and Wheaton World Wide Moving. The new company also plans to offer its service through online consumer websites often visited by people most likely to need a qualified mover as well as on.

Public Storage Inc. Announces Distributions for the First Quarter of…
Business Wire – Business Wire (press release) – Feb 23, 2006
Distributions were also declared with respect to the Company’s various series of preferred stock. All of the distributions are payable on March 30 2006 to shareholders of record as of March 15 2006. Company Information Public Storage Inc. an S&P 500 company is a fully integrated self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust that primarily acquires develops owns and operates storage facilities. The Company’s headquarters are located in Glendale California. The Company’s storage properties are located in 37 states. At December 31 2005 the Company had interests in 1501 storage facilities with approximately 92 million net rentable square feet.

HP to launch photo kiosks in retailers – Feb. 23 2006
cnn.com – Feb 23, 2006
com” >Amanda Cantrell CNNMoney. com staff writer February 23 2006: 5:42 AM EST NEW YORK (CNNMoney… HP has been making big moves to reach out to the consumer in the retail photo printing industry launching stand-alone photo printers that allow users to print photos at home straight from their digital cameras and acquiring photo storage Web site Snapfish as well as Picaxo a similar site in Europe. HP already has a deal with Walgreens to let users print photos stored on Snapfish at Walgreens stores and pick them up an hour later. Those moves are part of a larger plan to find new growth opportunities in HP’s imaging and printing group a roughly $25 billion business and HP’s largest division. HP’s Rich Duncombe vice president of retail photo solutions in HP’s imaging and printing division said the company is announcing its retail initiative as a third way to reach consumers who are in the midst of a mass migration to digital pictures he said. “The market transformation is bringing digital photography directly into our area of strength” he said.